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Education and Change in South Australia

Education and Change in South Australia Publication of a major state report whose interest lies primarily in its proposals for the recentralization of school curriculum is a sign of the transformation that is occurring in several parts of the world. What the Keeves Report, Education and Change in South Australia, says on this subject has already provoked a strong, critical reaction in parts of the Australian education community, not least from the teachers associations. But it is not only the curriculum analysis which has great topical interest. Set against the Keeves Committee's views on (1) the nature of social change, (2) the professional roles of teachers, and (3) the scope and functions of the state education bureaucracy, the proposals for concentration of curriculum power within that bureaucracy and very largely at state, not regional or local, level may be seen as a determined attempt to recentralize authority for education generally. The Report is an unusual example of sustained examination of curriculum policy and administration, prepared at a time of economic if not social crisis in a State until recently identified with optimism and innovation. By its uncompromising stand on the key question of where authority in a state system might best lie, it raises fundamental questions about public sector control, which take it well beyond the milieu of South Australian education. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Education SAGE

Education and Change in South Australia

Australian Journal of Education , Volume 27 (2): 12 – Aug 1, 1983

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SAGE
Copyright
© 1983 Australian Council for Educational Research.
ISSN
0004-9441
eISSN
2050-5884
DOI
10.1177/000494418302700201
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Abstract

Publication of a major state report whose interest lies primarily in its proposals for the recentralization of school curriculum is a sign of the transformation that is occurring in several parts of the world. What the Keeves Report, Education and Change in South Australia, says on this subject has already provoked a strong, critical reaction in parts of the Australian education community, not least from the teachers associations. But it is not only the curriculum analysis which has great topical interest. Set against the Keeves Committee's views on (1) the nature of social change, (2) the professional roles of teachers, and (3) the scope and functions of the state education bureaucracy, the proposals for concentration of curriculum power within that bureaucracy and very largely at state, not regional or local, level may be seen as a determined attempt to recentralize authority for education generally. The Report is an unusual example of sustained examination of curriculum policy and administration, prepared at a time of economic if not social crisis in a State until recently identified with optimism and innovation. By its uncompromising stand on the key question of where authority in a state system might best lie, it raises fundamental questions about public sector control, which take it well beyond the milieu of South Australian education.

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Australian Journal of EducationSAGE

Published: Aug 1, 1983

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